Question

I have a Subversion repository (running SVN 1.6.6) on an Ubuntu Linux server, and I’m trying to create a branch using the TortoiseSVN GUI; However, I get an error back:

COPY c:\work\repositoryWorkingcopy\ to http://svnserver/svn/repository/Oct13, Revision HEAD

Error
‘/svn/repository/!svn/bc/234/branches’
path not found

I logged into my Linux box to see if the “branches” folder was NOT available. However, I could see that /var/svn/repository/branches existed.

So, what’s the problem and how do I fix it?

I tried the following command (as per http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s02.html#svn-ch-4-sect-2.1) as well as from the command line and got a similar error:

c:\workingcopy> svn copy http://reposerver/svn/repository/ http://reposerver/svn/repository/branches/BFI_Oct13/ -m "Creating a branch"

svn: ‘/svn/repository/!svn/bc/235/branches’ path not found

What should I do?

Also, svn info on the main directory of the working copy gives the following information.

Path: .
URL: http://reposerver/svn/myrepository
Repository Root: http://reposerver/svn/myrepository
Repository UUID: 7a31d3c0-b288-4695-aecd-3f9dda2861ab
Revision: 235
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: anjan
Last Changed Rev: 235
Last Changed Date: 2010-10-13 20:39:31 +0530 (Wed, 13 Oct 2010)

Answer 1

When you say:

I logged into my Linux box to see if the “branches” folder was NOT available. However, I could see that /var/svn/repository/branches existed.

Do you mean that the actual directory exists in the filesystem (which will do you absolutely no good), or that it exists in the repository?

Possible fix:

$ svn mkdir http://reposerver/svn/repository/branches
$ svn copy http://reposerver/svn/repository/ http://reposerver/svn/repository/branches/BFI_`date +%b%d`/ -m "Creating a branch"